A few leftover notes from Pitt’s tackle-to-the-ground scrimmage Saturday. * I guess I watch practice differently than a lot of reporters in that the two things that stuck with me more than anything were Pitt coach Paul Chryst’s interactions with …

The night he led Connecticut to the national basketball championship, guard Shabazz Napier said he sometimes went to sleep hungry because NCAA restrictions limited how much food his school could provide him. Not long after that, the NCAA said to its student-athletes: …

A mystery on the Pitt offensive line surfaced this week when offensive left tackle Adam Bisnowaty started taking snaps at left guard and redshirt freshman Jaryd Jones-Smith was inserted at left tackle. Offensive line coach Jim Hueber said he was just getting …

It’s probably not ideal when the first sight at Pitt practice is this: One of the starting outside linebackers pedaling on the exercise bike with strength coach Ross Kolodziej. That, of course, is senior Todd Thomas, who came out of heavy …

Every morning, not long after 10, Pitt defensive end coach John Palermo dons a stylish Panama hat to protect himself from the sun and gathers his players around him at a corner of the Beano Cook fields closest to the South …

Pitt freshman running back Chris James has looked good over the first two days of training camp — or, as well as any player can look when no one is wearing pads. But when senior linebackers Anthony Gonzalez and Todd …

Too bad there are no homes close to the Beano Cook Fields adjacent to Pitt’s training complex on the South Side. Anyone who overslept would have been awakened by the sounds of the first day of the Panthers’ training camp. …